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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A cloud-native, realtime vector search engine integrating scalable machine learning models
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score134.45
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#223  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­semi-technologies/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate/­current
DeveloperMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19922019
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.17, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003OpenID Connect Discovery
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Microsoft AccessWeaviate
Typical application scenariosAs a stand-alone vector search engine, or use one of the many modules (transformers,...
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Key customersA ll companies that have data. ​
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. We also offer Fully managed Weaviate on...
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